Alexander Chayanov

Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov (Russian: Александр Васильевич Чаянов, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Vasil'evič Čajanov; * 1888, † 1937, 1938 or 1939) was a Russian agronomist.

He opposed the forcible collectivization of agriculture in the USSR and so was the displeasure of Josef Stalin. The best known representative and the spiritual leader of Russian agricultural science was released at the height of the collectivization campaign and arrested as a professor in 1930. The NKVD accused him to be head of the " toilers Peasant Party " in the Central Black Earth region, a party that Tschajanow had invented in his utopian novel "Journey of my brother Alexei to the Land of peasant utopia " of 1920. Against him a show trial was conducted. Chayanov was sentenced in 1932 to prison for five years, where he spent the last in exile in Alma- Ata. After extension of the exile he was arrested again in March 1937 and was shot on October 3, 1937 as an alleged spy.

Also Chaianov woman was arrested and spent 18 years in labor camps.

Chaianov son Vasily Alexandrovich Tschajanow researched the circumstances of his father's death and came into the possession of the interrogation protocols, in which one declared Tschajanow absurdly to the leader of an anti-Soviet party.

Chaianov economic masterpiece " The theory of peasant economy " is highly valued today, especially development economists. Especially valuable is his work "The optimal farm size in agriculture" ( 1930).

Tschajanow one of the Thüne researchers.

Alexander Chayanov is also known as author of the neo-romantic tales:

• " The story of a barber Doll" (1918 )
• " Venediktov " (1922 )
• " The Venetian Mirror" (1923 )
• " The Amazing Adventures of the Count Buturlin " (1924 )
• " Julia, or encounters at the Novodevichy Convent " (1928 )